Remember the days before power strips? Those huge bundles of wire that you could find behind everyone's TV. Of course back then it was only 3 plugs, because we simply did not have so many gadgets.
In fact, it those gadgets that are what is wasting so much of our energy in the home today. It is estimated that 5 - 20% of a home's electricity is wasted on powering devices that are not even being used.
Fortunately, there are some really cool systems on the market that can control this power consumption, but most of us do not have the money to purchse these systems.